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114641.1
Date: 10/6/2009 2:36:34 PM
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Is there a reason when I am logged in, my browser is forwarding to an ad?

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114641.3 in reply to 114641.2
Date: 10/7/2009 5:20:25 AM
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The way a mouse slides around on a board, it's possible I could've clicked any part of the screen. All I know is I was typing on the forum and the web browser is redirected to a site called MDLINX. I hope that's helpful.
Firefox 3.0.14 Win XP and a silly mouse that needs more friction.

Now it happens again. I log in, look at the news page, turn my head for a moment and I'm redirected. Let me clear cookies and try other things to help it.
I looked at my browsing history and it said
commerce.com
ad2.adserver.com
redirect
buzzerbeater.com
Some advertiser is being malicious.

Last edited by Red Martin at 10/7/2009 6:46:13 AM

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114641.5 in reply to 114641.4
Date: 10/7/2009 2:24:30 PM
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That's always a good idea. It was the same in google chrome browser.

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114641.7 in reply to 114641.6
Date: 10/7/2009 3:13:15 PM
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I'm testing a guess that it involves replying on the forums. The problem seems to occur then. I can't be sure until some other people post that they are redirected when replying to forum posts. It may be something on my computer.

I ran spyware cleaning software and antivirus , now let's see if the problem repeats.

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114641.9 in reply to 114641.8
Date: 10/7/2009 3:37:41 PM
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So this means it should be the same problem on both forum and not forum pages. Before my spyware scans the only time i notice the problem is at login or replying. Today after spyware scan, the forum reply is not producing the problem.

Do you have any ad that looks like a google search? This box reloaded several times and looked of such poor quality that I was suspicious. That would be from malware and not from the people that run your ads, I believe.

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114641.10 in reply to 114641.8
Date: 10/8/2009 1:52:35 PM
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Well I tried to respond to an email and was redirected to another page. I also picked up a Scanner (Norton actually works sometimes) called n.exn when I tried to backspace to my original page

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114641.11 in reply to 114641.10
Date: 10/8/2009 2:37:56 PM
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I cleaned cookies, found one hit on antivirus but I must say, after clean usage yesterday, the problem repeats today.
I see the fake google ad on top and today I got a red screen in google chrome. It said "warning this site can harm your computer" and blocked www.watermelonfun.cn - Firefox says the same thing "Reported attack site" .
I will run antivirus again today . there is something odd.

The last time I saw this kind of problem was when Korea Herald was reported as attack, but I found out it's not the Herald, but rather their advertiser was blocked.

Last edited by Red Martin at 10/8/2009 2:39:06 PM